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oapen-20.500.12657-609392024-03-27T14:15:08Z More Than Machines? Voss, Laura Robot Artificial Intelligence Animacy Anthropomorphism Agency Technology Society Science Sociology of Technology Sociology of Culture Sociology of Work and Industry Sociology thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues::PDR Impact of science and technology on society thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology::JHBL Sociology: work and labour We know that robots are just machines. Why then do we often talk about them as if they were alive? Laura Voss explores this fascinating phenomenon, providing a rich insight into practices of animacy (and inanimacy) attribution to robot technology: from science-fiction to robotics R&D, from science communication to media discourse, and from the theoretical perspectives of STS to the cognitive sciences. Taking an interdisciplinary perspective, and backed by a wealth of empirical material, Voss shows how scientists, engineers, journalists - and everyone else - can face the challenge of robot technology appearing »a little bit alive« with a reflexive and yet pragmatic stance. 2023-01-27T15:07:24Z 2023-01-27T15:07:24Z 2021 book ONIX_20230127_9783839455609_14 9783839455609 9783837655605 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/60939 eng Science Studies application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9783839455609.pdf transcript Verlag transcript Verlag 10.14361/9783839455609 10.14361/9783839455609 b30a6210-768f-42e6-bb84-0e6306590b5c 9783839455609 9783837655605 transcript Verlag 216 Bielefeld open access
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We know that robots are just machines. Why then do we often talk about them as if they were alive? Laura Voss explores this fascinating phenomenon, providing a rich insight into practices of animacy (and inanimacy) attribution to robot technology: from science-fiction to robotics R&D, from science communication to media discourse, and from the theoretical perspectives of STS to the cognitive sciences. Taking an interdisciplinary perspective, and backed by a wealth of empirical material, Voss shows how scientists, engineers, journalists - and everyone else - can face the challenge of robot technology appearing »a little bit alive« with a reflexive and yet pragmatic stance.
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